Chapter 12 Summary

Billy rents a car in Ireland, intent on going to Eva's parents and speaking with them before going to Eva's grave in 1973. Billy gets lost on the way and stops at a little gas station just outside the little town where Eva grew up. The whole drive, he thinks of everything Eva missed out on, the children she never had, the marriage she never had, the life she never had. At the gas station, the owner sends him into a tiny diner attached to it and tells him to ask his wife for directions. The wife turns out to be Eva.

Billy and Eva talk for a while. Eva feels guilty for not returning his money to him. However, she has a good life, has had four children, and now has grandkids. Mary never married, she tells him, and she never forgave Eva...